Trump Admin Slashes Annual Refugee Cap to an All-Time Low

Conservative News DailyOctober 30, 2025

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President Donald Trump has set the U.S. refugee admissions cap for the 2026 fiscal year at a historic low of 7,500 refugees. The majority of thes slots are allocated specifically for Afrikaners from South Africa, a group identified as facing racial discrimination and government-backed property confiscation under South African policies. This policy is based on Executive Order 14204, which aims to support the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees who are fleeing race-based discrimination, including recent land expropriation laws.

Trump’s administration emphasizes that refugee admissions will focus on humanitarian concerns and national interest,prioritizing groups like Afrikaners and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination. The refugee resettlement process is also being reorganized,shifting responsibilities from the State Department to the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure better resource use,refugee assimilation,and protection of U.S. national security.

This move sharply contrasts wiht the previous Biden administration, which increased refugee admissions considerably, setting limits of over 100,000 in fiscal year 2024 and 125,000 in fiscal year 2025. Trump has articulated a strict stance on refugee admissions, insisting that only refugees capable of fully assimilating into U.S. society be admitted, to protect American safety, security, and taxpayer resources.

Additionally, reports indicate Trump is considering extending priority refugee status to European conservatives targeted for expressing their political views peacefully, specifically those opposing mass migration and supporting populist parties. the policy reflects a more restrictive refugee approach focused on targeted humanitarian priorities and assimilation requirements.

President Donald Trump is cutting the number of refugees to be allowed into the United States to an all-time low.

Trump is also putting white Afrikaners from South Africa at the head of the line, according to the document that sets refugee limits for the 2026 federal fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

“The admissions of up to 7,500 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year 2026 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest,” the document said.

“The admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa pursuant to Executive Order 14204, and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands,” the document said.

President Trump has officially set the lowest refugee admissions cap in U.S. history, allocating 7,500 spots for this fiscal year, mostly for Afrikaners who the administration has claimed are facing racial discrimination in South Africa for being white. pic.twitter.com/3acTEXfX08

— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) October 30, 2025

Executive Order 14204 said the U.S. will “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”

The order noted as a basis for the action, “the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 (Act), to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation. This Act follows countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.”

A recent report in The New York Times indicated that Trump has been encouraged to also prioritize European conservatives “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

Trump had sought to restrict the flow of refugees in his first term and reduced the numbers until the cap on refugees was at 15,000 in the final year of his first term, according to the Associated Press.

In fiscal year 2024, the Biden administration brought in more than 100,000 refugees, which CBS reported was the highest level since the 1990s.

In fiscal 2025, the Biden administration set a limit of 125,000 refugees, according to The New York Times.

Refugee resettlement contracts are being shifted from the State Department to the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to Politico.

The administration said the changes are part of a plan to resettle refugees “in a manner that serves the national interest, promotes efficient use of taxpayer dollars, protects the integrity of the United States immigration system, and supports refugees in achieving early economic self-sufficiency and assimilation into American society.”

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has just set the annual limit for refugees into the U.S. at 7,500 and most will be South African farmers who can easily assimilate

GREAT! I want very few refugees, and the ones who DO come here must be instantly prepared to adopt the American way. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/eeOxwqTWd8

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 30, 2025

In a January executive order that suspended refugee admissions temporarily, Trump wrote that “the United States lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities in a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, that protects their safety and security, and that ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees.”

Trump wrote that “public safety and national security are paramount considerations” in operating the refugee program.

He wrote that the United States should “admit only those refugees who can fully and appropriately assimilate into the United States and to ensure that the United States preserves taxpayer resources for its citizens.”